I thought a bit more about the Vatican’s statement on celebs wearing fancy crucifixes as jewelry. In all the news clips and photos I saw they don’t appear to be wearing crucifixes, but rather crosses without the corpus of our Lord. Are they protestants perhaps? It takes me back to what St. Francis of Assisi said about the empty cross. He called it “the cross of the bad thief.”

Who are the victims? Rod Dreher says they are the Catholics in Milwaukee. This from NRO today:

Here’s a tiny portion of what the Free Man of Milwaukee has meant for the Church in his city: He directed Catholic schools there to teach kids how to use condoms as part of AIDS education, and approved a graphic sex-education program for parochial-school kids that taught “there is no right and wrong” on the issues of abortion, contraception and premarital sex. He has advocated for gay rights and women’s

From the Catholic League. And before you read this, here’s the news story. And let me just say that this is the dumbest thing I have ever seen from the Catholic League. How do we “Chill Out” about stuff like this when the people accused have not even dealt with the issues? It’s a standing Archbishop who was accused of sexual misconduct and paid out a $450,000 settlement. That is serious, serious business. There’s no statute of limitations on what we’ll see come Judgement Day –